Discovery Box1 Kings 11:5-8 
Context11:5 Solomon worshiped 1 the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 2 11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; 3 he did not remain loyal to 4 the Lord, like his father David had. 11:7 Furthermore, 5 on the hill east of Jerusalem 6 Solomon built a high place 7 for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh 8 and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 9 11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 10
1 tn Heb “walked after.”
2 tn Heb “Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.”
3 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
4 tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”
5 tn Heb “then.”
6 sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
7 sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).
8 tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”
9 tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).
10 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”
